ASBESTOS INFORMATION ASSOCIATION NORTH AMERICA 1S35 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 223-4885 6 January 1977 Memorandum For: MEMBERS Subject: Statement in Response to Inquiries with Regard to NIOSH Report to OSHA on Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Asbestos.

In 1972, he'became the first full-time executive director of the Asbestos Information Association/North America, a trade association dealing with health and environ mental problems in the industry. 311

INTERROGATORY NO. 30.2 Has Defendant, or any engineer, industrial hygienist or physician in Defendant's employ, been a member in any professional group, trade group or any of the following groups: American Ceramics Society Asbestos Textile Institute National Insulation Manufacturers Association Thermal Insulation Manufacturers Association Quebec Asbestos Mining Association Asbestos Information Association Industrial Health Foundation Industrial Hygiene Foundation Iron and Steel Institute National Safety Counsel Refractories Institute Air Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc.

As we discussed, we should generate as much opposition at that Committee Meeting as possible, and in my opinion outside sources will be much more effective, such as Riverside Cement Company and the Cement Company Association, Asbestos Information Association, and possibly our Plant Managers.

Swetonic was affiliated with 2 the -- 3 A Yes. 4 Q -- Asbestos Information Association?

To prepare a response to this interrogatory would necessitate the preparation or the making of a compilation, abstract, audit, or summary of or from these files and records No such compilation, abstract, audit, or summary presently exists The burden and expense of preparing or making such a compilation, abstract, audit, or summary would be substantially the same for plaintiffs as for Abex There are approximately 125 boxes, many of which comprise of approximately 2,000 - 3,000 pages, that contain the documents from which the response to this interrogatory may be ascertained or denved, details of which are as follows: 1 Club Membership, 1980-1981. 2 Asbestos Information Association, 1977. 3.

(Ml) Asbestos Information Association of North America 1660 L Street, H.W.

The label will read as follows: CAUTION CONTAINS ASBESTOS FIBERS AVOID CREATING DUST BREATHING ASBESTOS DUST MAY CAUSE SERIOUS BODILY HARK I am enclosing a book put out by the Asbestos Information Association entitled.

ASBESTOS INFORMATION ASSOCIATION 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway, Crystal Square 4, Suite 509 Arlington, Virginia 22202 (703) 979-1150 J November 4, 1983 MEMORANDUM FOR: MEMBERS Subject: OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard on Asbestos As you know, OSHA announced November 2, an asbestos Emer gency Temporary Standard (ETS) despite our concerted efforts to convince the Agency not to do so.

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And the figures I have just given you represent only those companies that are members of the Asbestos Information Association.

This cost can be split between the members of the Asbestos Information Association, thereby reducing the expenditure to each corporation to a maximum of approximately $60,000.

Asbestos Information Association, 1977 3 Expense Reports, 1980-1982. 4 Abex News and other miscellaneous publications, 1967-1978. 5 1970s-1980s Subject Files, FMSI 6.

Chairman, Legal-Medical Research Committee Asbestos Information Association/N.A.

Asbestos Information Association, 1977 3.